Sports and Recreation minister Fikile Mbalula claims “hack” over NU-DE pic tweet

We’ve always known that South Africa’s politicians are semi-celebrities

Whether or not you agree with it or not, some of our cabinet ministers make their way to the tabloids more frequently than a lot of actors, singers and models in the country.

No other politician, however, manages to do this more frequently than Fikile Mbalula and on Friday morning he found himself trending once again.

This time, however, it wasn’t for anything funny or charismatic.

The Minister of Sports and Recreation shared a very dodgy picture of a barely dressed woman on Twitter shortly before deleting the picture

Minister Fikile Mbalula posted this erotic pic on his twitter account and deleted it, what do you think happened? pic.twitter.com/vOmR7T9TQN

— Zkhiphani.com (@Zkhiphani) January 28, 2016

As soon as he discovered the picture, Fikile quickly deleted it before admitting that he was “hacked” and that he had no knowledge of the picture

NB MY TWITTER ACCOUNT WAS HACKED THEY WILL NEVER SUCCED

— RSA Min of Sport (@MbalulaFikile) January 28, 2016

Shortly afterwards, Fikile then tried to take a humorous spin on the matter by releasing a Twitter poll in which he asked people:

“Who do you think hacked me?” Some of the options included Gareth Cliff, Adriaan Basson and Satan.

Who hacked my account ?

— RSA Min of Sport (@MbalulaFikile) January 28, 2016

The funniest response to all of this was Adriaan Basson, who tweeted:

@MbalulaFikile My name is spelled wrong.

— Adriaan Basson (@AdriaanBasson) January 29, 2016

Do you believe that Fikile Mbalula was actually hacked? Or do you think he is trying to cover up a mistake?